National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) is playing the host to the first
energy engineering alliance forum, which was opened on December 23 with
more than 25 university faculty from 5 countries including the United
Sates, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, and Taiwan.

On behalf of NCKU President Huey-Jen Jenny Su and College of Engineering
Dean Pao-Shan Yu, the department head of aeronautics and astronautics
Chin-Hsiang Cheng welcomed the guests and gave opening remarks.

Cheng said, “This forum is a great platform where universities from
countries particularly in Southeast Asia and Taiwan can interact and
share information regarding energy issues.”

He added, “Collaborations follow the friendship. We have to have the
friendship first and then we can talk about partnership.”

“In the very near future, energy would be a very important issue. You
cannot avoid it and you cannot just pretend energy issue is not there
for human being,” Cheng noted.

The two-day forum included a total of 24 sections of forum speech
regarding the latest research on energy given by professors from
Hochiminh City University of Natural Resources and Environment,
University of Nevada, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Kasetsart
University, Chulalongkorn Univeristy, and National Cheng Kung University.

Associate Dean for Research at Kasetsart University Paisan
Kongkachuiychay, who visited NCKU for the second time said, “It’s really
nice to initiate the forum where we can learn from our neighbors and we
have high possibility to make some work together and share resources.”

“Energy is a hot topic not only regionally but globally,” said Paisan
adding, “Thailand is also trying to promote alternative energy and
invests a lot on gasohol which is a mixture between gasoline and
ethanol, produced from agricultural products.”

He also revealed that next month Dean Yu from NCKU will visit Kasetsart
University to sign a MoU between two organizations.

Prof. Ku Zilati Ku Shaari, Head of Center for Student Internship,
Mobility and Adjunct Lectureship at Universiti Teknologi Petronas said,
“We have just started collaboration with NCKU by sending our chemical
engineering students to do internship at the research lab.”

Prof. Yi-Tung Chen from University of Nevada who has been involving in
the research of solar cell design said, “Energy has to be looked at in a
wide spectrum, everything has to be balanced.”

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